Career Growth

In 1942 the song “Rosie the Riveter” marked the start of U.S. women becoming employed in traditional male positions. By November 15, 2017, it is highly likely that women will finally reach 20% of U.S. corporate board membership since 2020 Women on Boards’ January 2017 Gender Diversity Index (GDI) showed: 19.7% of the seats at […]

DHL is using collaborative robots (cobots) designed to work alongside of humans to perform packing, kitting, and pre-retail tasks alongside their human colleagues. British online supermarket Ocado is using more than 1,000 4G-enabled robots in its automated warehouses and working on a cobot to help with tricky maintenance. Amazon has 30,000 fulfillment robots working […]

In this season of politics, here’s a quiz that will help your career avoid the mine fields of incorrect responses to situations when discussions of politics arise at your workplace. Answer: True, False, or It Depends: You can express what your political views are about the candidates up for election this year because the First […]

Your first investment(s) in your career usually provides you with technical employment skills—e.g., you earn a JD to become a lawyer; a BS in Accounting to become an accountant; a BA in Marketing to enter advertising, public relations, sales, market research, or product development; or an engineering degree to become an engineer. Your next investment(s) […]

Your assumptions about procrastinators are probably all wrong. Yes, it’s true that there are some negative consequences to putting off actions until tomorrow instead of doing them today, but there’s also a number of clear advantages to being a procrastinator, which I’ll tell you about in a minute after defusing the biggest myth about procrastinators […]

What is a career strategist doing giving marriage advice? Unfortunately, who you marry is a key ingredient as to how well you are likely to meet your career expectations, especially if you’re a woman. Yes, this advice has been heard for a while, from your parents; from Dr. Neal Clark Warren, the founder of […]

“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” —Marilyn vos Savant, a very smart woman If you use your strengths every day, you are 6 times more likely to be engaged on the job than others in similar roles, which means that you’ll probably be noticed by your boss, thus […]

QUESTION: What does a Jesuit priest who is a school superintendent, a marketing entrepreneur who writes a weekly newspaper business column, and a New York networking maven have in common? ANSWER: They are all proponents of effective time management. The first two—the priest and the marketing entrepreneur—are big fans of personal productivity guru David Allen’s […]

Are you finding the right corporate culture for you—you know, the one where you fit right in from day one, understanding exactly what is meant by what management and employees around you are saying? Then consider these points: Forget about what the company says its values are on its website. Professors Luigi Zingales from The […]